Job 19:19
All my closest friends despise me, and those I loved have turned on me.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
In Context
18Even young children despise me; when I stand up they ridicule me.
20I've been reduced to skin and bones and I survive by the skin of my teeth.
Cross References
Job 6:21Now you are no help, just like that —you see my trouble and you're afraid.
Psalms 41:9Even my best friend, the one I trusted, who shared meals with me—even he has turned against me.
Psalms 55:12The problem is that it's not an enemy who mocks me—I could stand that. It's not someone who hates me who insults me—I could avoid them.
Psalms 55:20As for my best friend, he attacked his friends who had no quarrel with him; he broke the promises he had made to them.
Luke 22:48But Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of man with a kiss?”
Matthew Henry on Job 19:9-23
Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. ( b. c. 1520.) 8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my… Read the whole commentary →